Idealism or Pragmatism

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Hello friends, in a book I found what Swami Vivekananda thought
that we can uplift the lives of our countrymen by using some amount of
rajas. One of the reasons for the backwardness of Indians is that most
of the people are in Tamas as compared to Japan where inactiveness is a
crime.
I always has one question in mind, which is better, IDEALISM or
PRAGMATISM.
Mahatma Gandhi was an idealist, we all know. Nehru was pragmatic.
I once read a quote, "Live like Ram, but act like Krishna". I
guesses its meaning to be that we should live a idealistic life, but
while working we should not be too much idealistic because we have to
work with other peoples although a basic core of principles should be
there while working also.
Hitesh Verma
B. Tech.
MAIT, GGSIPU

[रजनीश मंगला]

हितेष जी, क्या आप ये 'रजस,
तमस' वाला फंडा विस्तार से
समझा सकते हैं? धन्यवाद

[hitesh verma]

Hello sir,

    Although I can't claim to know much in this matters but I will try. In hindu religion different people have been divided on the basis of there gunas. Tamas - this guna is predominant in people who are inactive and don't take charge of there lives.

Rajas - these are the people full of passion and restlessness and are very ambitious.

sattvic - this are the people who are very calm. Equinamity is there hallmark.

 

         Now, if you look at the west for eg. Britain. To make there people brave , they say "Be British". We never say "Be Indian".

 

        They have made their  people ambitious ,  ambitious to achieve more and more. There is a philosophy in the west that "every person is for himself". In east emphasis has been given on family values, working for the community.

     

        There were different effects of these philosophies for eg. west become great in material power, absorbed in work but they had little happiness and were never contented.

 

        East become happy, but most of the work here was useless, marriage processions, birth ceremonies, etc. I mean instead of working for the family and the community, we started to work for showing off in the community.

   

       This is the problem with idealistic approach.This was one of the problem with communism. This was one of the problems with non-alligned movement. Without becoming strong, showing morality is always foolishness. Even a person as humble as our president APJ Abdul Kalam developed missiles. There is no voice of weak. 

 

       Now, India is on the track of economic growth although not in its true potential. One of the reason is that due to liberalisation we become more ambitious, started spending which allowed economy to boom.

 

       What I want to say is, it is very difficult to make all the people to work for the country but we can make people contribute in the growth of economy by making them spend, by making them more and more ambitious to attain riches. Instead of saying "garibi hatao" y not say "amiri badao". Y not say we want more and more billionaires. Instead of lamenting on the rich-poor divide y not help these poors to attain riches. Yah greed is bad but inaction is worst and India need food and gold right now , not religion and spirituality. Yah we will bring spiritual revolution side by side but for those people who are in inaction first bring passion to them. This is what I  meant by using rajas .

   

      A great man has said that India is going to win the world by love. Don't know what are the exact words. We can do it first of becoming strongest. As we all know Unites States of America has failed in this regard.   

 

     

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